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Directors of a regional waste management district that owns a troubled landfill in north Baxter County voted again Tuesday to cooperate with investors and other stakeholders who seek to fix and reopen the landfill.

A representative from IESI Inc., a landfill operator with a new transfer station under construction at Midway, told the board that plans to fix and reopen the NABORS landfill and force the flow of waste to it are wrong for the public, waste haulers and other landfill owners.

"We will do what's right for our customers and our company," said Mickey "Stubby" Stumbaugh, a marketing ...